SO staying with you in the hospital?

My DH and I live about twenty minutes from the hospital where I plan to deliver. He wants to come home for the night after baby is born, to take care of the dog. As a FTM, my initial reaction is that I need him with me and we can get someone to look after the dog. My very sensible mother, however, says there's no reason neither of us should get any rest and I should let him come home. What do you think? Mom has a point, but I'm feeling needy.

My mil will be taking care of ds and our dogs. But ill send dh home around bed time to help put ds down. And also Round 2 so he can feed our dogs. Since they have stroct diets and have to be fed separately. Thank god for the hospital only being 5 min away

Mine will probably leave to check on the house/pets after the baby is born and I've gotten cleaned up and settled in. He won't be gone for more than an hour or two, though, so I think i'll just enjoy the one on one time with our new baby! I don't think i'd want to be left alone at the hospital overnight either, though.

We live an hour from the hospital and have 3 kids at home. Dh can't stay.... It's better for him to be home with the kids. They have school and other things going on and he knows their schedule and will keep things running smoothly.
My mom is visiting from out of town and she'll be at the hospital with me as much as she can, but not spending the night.
I was alone at the hospital most of the time with my 3rd. It was fine.

We live 20 minutes from our hospital and my DF is staying the night. Unless you're scheduled for a csection how will you know what time he will be able to get back to feed the dog? What if you're in labor and/or delivering at the time the dog needs to be fed? IMO it'd be better to plan for someone else to take care of the dog.

I'm actually hoping mine goes home. We live 20 minutes away as well. Doesn't even make me panic to think he won't stay. I mean with nurses coming and going, the baby up and down all night.... he should at least get sleep.... and take care of the dogs. My Dad & step mom are a quarter mile from the hospital and will have DD while I'm in. If anything happens, 3 people are a phone call away.

We live very close to the hospital but DH didn't stay with me the first time and I don't expect him to stay this time - there was no space in the room so I'm not sure where he would have even tried to sleep. And after being in labor all night, sleep was critical for both of us.

Mine is staying at least one night. He stayed both with our first but left during the day to run errands, feed the cat, shower, etc. This time my mom is watching our 5 year old at least the first night but we will probably play it by ear and how I feel for the second night.

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